# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line # up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' # on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must # make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also # customary to leave one space after the ':'. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| flac: flac (Free Lossless Audio Codec) flac: flac: FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, flac: FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless. "Free" means that the flac: specification of the stream format is in the public domain, and that flac: neither the FLAC format nor any of the implemented encoding/decoding flac: methods are covered by any patent. It also means that the sources for flac: libFLAC and libFLAC++ are available under the LGPL and the sources for flac: flac, metaflac, and the plugins are available under the GPL. flac: flac: FLAC was developed by Josh Coalson.